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<p>When do you have to pay for the tuition fees? the dorm fees? (the first payment)
is it cheaper if you pay all at once?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>They give you bills each month or so; no, it’s not cheaper if you pay all at once.</p>
<p>Sorta true. Cal will bill you once each semester for registration and other things (essentiallY tuition). You can pay it right away, or pay a $40 fee per semester to divide it up into five monthly payments, over the course of the semester. Not sure if that fee is waived for financial aid recipients, but it applies to at least some students.</p>
<p>Cal also bills you for room and board if you are in a dorm. That is divided into five equal monthly payments and there is no advantage at all to paying it early. Actually, your contract is for the year so it is ten monthly payments, covering both fall and spring semesters. Just take the room/board charges you expect and divide by ten for your monthly hit.</p>
<p>Finally, there are some miscellaneous things that hit your account in certain months. If you pay the fee to have access to the gyms, that small charge shows up in the month you incur it. There is (or was at least) a telephone fee for dorm students that hits once. </p>
<p>Generally, you get a bill due Aug 15th that has the full half-year ‘tuition’ charges, 1/10th of the room and board, plus a few miscellaneous charges including CalSO for example. Then you have four months of just 1/10th of room&board plus some miscellaneous charges. Around the beginning of the next calendar year, you get a bill due January 15th for the full half-year ‘tuition’ charge, 1/10th of room & board plus miscellaneous stuff, then four more months of 1/10th room/board plus miscellaneous. If you sign up for summer classes, those fees hit in some month in that spring semester set. If you select the deferred payment for tuition, then it looks a bit different, with ten roughly equal months of 1/10th tuition, 1/10th room and board, plus miscellaneous charges, plus the $40. The bill format can be confusing, as it lists the entire year obligation of room and board and the entire semesters tuition, but not the spring semester tuition (until you get to that part of the year), but you pay attention to the ‘due now’ part not the total.</p>
<p>When one is trying to check course enrollment info in the Schedule, what’s “open seating”?</p>
<p>It means there are no restrictions on who can sign up for the class. A lot of classes will not have that as they often allow only declared people to sign up during Phase I for example or freshman, etc.</p>
<p>I live in California and I’m definitely applying to UCLA, UCSD, and probably UCI as a safety. The overachievers at my school all are shooting for UCB, but I’m worried that it would be way too liberal for me. Are Republicans ostracized? Do lots of people do drugs?</p>
<p>about the drugs,
um, no, not openly.
but it’s not that hard to get a pack of weed either. :)</p>
<p>Too liberal? The mass population, yes. In my honest opinion, the number of people who actually have a reason to be liberal that I consider good and well thought out probably is very small. Then again, the number of people who think about anything at all hard enough is generally speaking small. </p>
<p>I am personally not very politically inclined at all, so I find no political hysteria very palatable.</p>
<p>what book do I need for Math 1B to Math 53? There are so many editions of Stewart’s Calculus 6E and I’m not sure which edition to get. Any help would help thanks.</p>
<p>how hard is it to get a personal relationship with a professor for research at Cal? especially for something bio related??</p>
<p>It’s not too politically hostile to Republicans, although obviously we are in the minority. The Berkeley College Republicans is the largest student political organization though and is quite active on campus; if you would like more information about BCR, you can PM me.</p>
<p>ok…i have a 700M 590 CR and 650 W does that mean…berkeley is too tough for me ot get in???</p>
<p>@dexter1 </p>
<p>we need waaaaay more information. The SAT by itself isn’t bad, except maybe the CR but SAT scores are only one of the many factors of UCB admission.</p>
<p>welll…i ahve gt an ib predicted of 38/42… and do go-karitng at a national level…have also represented my country…uwc student…cordinate model united nations as well as traitioanl games…love punblic speaking and dancing.have accolades as well…</p>
<p>How much is everything? Tuition, books, dorm, food, etc? A basic cost of living outline from a current Cal student would be nice. </p>
<p>I’m really poor, and because of that my parents have no money for me [grrreat.] so I’m basically applying for as many scholarships as I can. I guess I’ll have to work part time as well…</p>
<p>the financial aid website said it was something like 25K. But last year, for me, it was something like 18-19K. over 90% of the cost will be tuition and housing, so it shouldn’t be much more than that since u’ll mostly eat in the DCs.
being poor is great!!!
if ur dirt poor like me 
u’ll proly get like 14K in grants provided u applied for cal grant and stuff like that</p>
<p>Why did it only cost 18-19K? What were the extra costs that the financial aid website factored in?</p>
<p>@abbccc</p>
<p>for soul it cost 18-19k because he was dirt poor and learned to budget wisely. otherwise the average Cal undergrad forfeits about 21-23k a year. For me it’s probably around 20k since i lived in the dorms, but i got an apartment for 2009-2010, so it should save me 2k.
Anyways you can calculate your expenses yourself
[UC</a> Berkeley Financial Aid Office Cost of Attendance](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm]UC”>http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm)</p>
<p>I got around 14k in grants/scholarships too. Let’s say I only spend 20k as opposed to the estimated 27K. How does that affect my financial aid? Will they take some of my scholarship/grant money away or will they lessen my loans/work study?</p>